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Re-Play: The orphanage of gaming heroes

One of the many interesting findings in last week's Interactive Australia 2007 report was that platformers are now Australia's least favourite games.

It's a big fall from dizzying heights - platform games were once the most popular gaming genre. But after Mario 64 perfected the art form, there's been precious little interest from either gamers or developers.

The decline of platform games, as well as this site dedicated to yesteryear's advertising mascots, got Screen Play thinking about all the gaming heroes now confined to obscurity.

See how many of the videogaming heroes listed below that you can remember, and nominate your own fallen stars destined never to shine again.

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I am showing my age (seem to do that more and more as time goes on) but what about Commander Keen. I believe he was ID's first hero. There is also Abe from Oddworld and Lester Knight Chaykin from Another World.

Also Simon Belmont, only because Cstlevania is rad! (I'm trying to bring 'rad' back into the common vernacular, not going so well). Symphony Of the Night being particularly awesome. Still trying to hunt down a copy of that. I know that Castlevania has very little to do with this topic but, hey, it's Friday and... uh... CASTLEVANIA!

Rad.

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Charlsie

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Belgrave

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April 15, 2011, 8:29AM

Oh how I love(d) Commander Keen too. A number of good memories from playing Bubsy with friends to the arcade game of Joe and Mac. What about to B.O.B.?